Yokohama, California (Classics of Asian American Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Mori, Toshio

United States

University of Washington Press

Yokahama, California, originally published in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in the fictional community of Yokahama, California, Mori's work is alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the late 1930s and early 1940s."Mori's superbly structured short stories are set in West Oakland for the most part, and are tender, evocative episodes of growing up as a Japanese American prior to World War II." -San Francisco Chronicle
"Mori is unafraid to let the humanity of his characters and himself shine through bravely." -The Oakland Tribune
"Originally published in 1949, and now rescued from obscurity, Yokahama California is another important Asian American work that must not be missed." -East Wind
"A unique record of Japanese American life in Northern California in the decades just before World War II, the book became one of the lost volumes of American literature...[This new edition] validates both Mori's devotion to craft and a rich phase in the life of his people." -Exploration in Sights and Sounds

Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s. Replaces ISBN 9780295961675

The Chauvinist and Other Stories features twenty-two stories of Japanese-American life, ranging in settings from pre-WWII era California, to wartime internment camps, to the postwar Nisei experience. As an Asian Times reviewer notes when The Chauvinist first appeared, Mori "cannot fail to reach [his readers] because he is an honest man, speaking from his own experience, his own suffering and happiness, his own real and human life." The writer Hisaye Yamamoto, in the original introduction to this collection, declared Mori "indisputably the pioneer of Japanese American literature."The collection's republication in this volume marks the first time these stories are widely available in over forty years.

The Chauvinist and Other Stories

Modern Times Publishing

Born in Oakland, California, in 1910, the young Toshio Mori dreamed of being an artist, a Buddhist missionary, and a baseball player. Instead, he grew flowers in the family nursery business, and—influenced by contemporaries such as Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Heming-way —produced a body of extraordinary fiction. His well-crafted, humorous, wise tales celebrate the Japanese American community he knew so well, and reach beyond it to describe the essential human condition. The promise of a writing career was tragically interrupted when the publication of his first collection of short stories, Yokohama, California, was cancelled after the United States entered World War II. Mori was soon on his way from Oakland to Topaz, Utah—one of 110,000 citizens of Japanese descent held in internment camps between 1941 and 1944. When Yokohama, California was finally published in 1949, Toshio Mori was, at last, able to claim his place as "one of the most important new writers in the country" (William Saroyan). Unfinished Message includes fifteen stories, a novella, letters, photographs, and an interview with Toshio Mori. Some of this material has never before been published.

Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori (California Legacy Book)

Inada, Lawson Fusao

Mori, Steven Y.

Heyday Books

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Yokohama, California (Classics of Asian American Literature)

Yokohama, California (Classics of Asian American Literature)

Yokohama, California (Classics of Asian American Literature)

The Chauvinist and Other Stories

Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori (California Legacy Book)